TECHNOLOGY
Tech Bloc, a local advocacy group for San Antonio's tech industry, is accepting applications for TechFuel, a $100,000 startup pitch competition. Winners will be announced in an event this fall. (Courtesy Tech Bloc)
San Antonio tech advocacy group accepting applications for pitch competition
Bexar County is allocating $25 million in federal pandemic relief funds to support private/public collaborative efforts toward expanding affordable internet service. Local nonprofit SA Digital Connects, a key community player in such efforts, said they and partner organizations and agencies will now focus on improving digital infrastructure, access and literacy in the most underserved county precincts, shaded in dark green here. (Courtesy SA Digital Connects)
Bexar County budgets $25M in federal funds for efforts to shrink the local digital divide
Red fiber-optic cables plugged into a machine
USDA invests over $36M for high-speed internet in rural Texas
Mayor Ron Nirenberg speaks during the unveiling of the State of San Antonio's Tech Industry economic effect study June 29 at Tech Port Center and Arena. (Courtesy Tech Bloc)
Report: San Antonio’s technology industry continues growth
Luca Esparza, an incoming second-grader at Stone Oak Elementary School, went with his family to Cape Canaveral, Florida, to see the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch on May 25. Falcon 9 contained 59 small payloads, including a methane emissions-monitoring satellite nicknamed “Luca.” (Courtesy Angel Esparza/North East ISD)
Newly launched satellite named after Stone Oak Elementary student
San Antonio-based SWBC has changed the name of subsidiary company, SWBC Payments, to Swivel Transactions and changed the company’s focus on improving and speeding up account holders’ transactions and communications with financial institutions. (Courtesy Google Streets)
North San Antonio firm’s new venture focused on making online financial transactions easier
WeTree, an app created by San Antonio entrepreneurs Lorenzo Gomez III and Steve Cunningham, enables users to quickly engage their "inner circle" of friends and loved ones and receive support to shore up their mental health and/or to provide such support. (Courtesy Torsten Dettlaff/Pexels)
San Antonio entrepreneurs launch mental health care app
Two Krueger School of Applied Technologies students at North East ISD work on engineering and building their own rockets to test launch earlier this spring. (Courtesy North East ISD)
North East ISD plans to redevelop tech magnet programs

Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio will use its Metering Research Facility as part of a three-year, $2.9 million partnership with the University of Michigan meant to create a more efficient way to reduce methane emissions produced in oil fields. (Courtesy Southwest Research Institute)
San Antonio research institute tapped to create more effective way to cut methane emissions
The newly opened Alamo Regional Security Operations Center at Port San Antonio is a collaboration between the city of San Antonio and CPS Energy designed to help protect local governments and utilities from hackers and other cyberspace threats. (Courtesy Port San Antonio)
New cyber operations center opens in San Antonio
Council members approved the creation of Municipal Utility District No. 213, which includes the proposed multimillion-dollar community, during an Oct. 28 meeting. (Screenshot via city of Conroe)
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